String marionette “Bussejador” (Diver)

Museu de les Arts Escèniques de l’Institut del Teatre

Collection: Puppets

Type: Marionette

Author: Tozer, Harry Vernon, 1902-1999

Country: Catalonia

Date: 1955

Description: Vertical command; 10 threads; 1 manipulator
It wears a gray spacesuit, the bus helmet is created with a cork ball and a rubber balloon, the exterior is made of wood painted to imitate bronze. The long rubber tube that always accompanies the diving suit and is used to obtain air sticks out. The brown boots are painted on the wood. It wears wooden plumes at his waist and under his feet, and a gray wooden dagger in his right hand.

Height: 50 cm

Technique/Material: Braided linen suspension thread, cork head and rubber balloon.

Show: La Sireneta i el follet del mar (The little mermaid and the sea goblin), by Harry Vernon Tozer. Comedy.

Harry Vernon Tozer (1902-1999) found.
He settled in Barcelona in 1925 where he became fascinated by the Catalan puppet and specialized in the marionette until he became a professor at the Theater Institute. Its fund, bequeathed in 1988, exceeds a hundred marionettes and also includes a theater with two bridges and several sets.

(Information: Museu de les Arts Escèniques de l’Institut del Teatre)

Technical characteristics of the 3D model:

3D model made with a high-resolution 3D scanner, textured with a photographic image.
The complexity in the 3D scanning of a piece like this, and of other marionettes, must be emphasized, maintaining its initial position throughout all the process.

Poligons: 60.000
Vertices: 29.924
Measures: 27,56 x 21,45 x 51,42 cm (cordless and tubeless)

Rendered with textures in PBR (Physically Based Rendering) format.

PBR are the initials of Physically Based Rendering. Such material, applied to the 3D model, shows the visual properties of the surface in a physically realistic way, so that realistic results are possible in all virtual lighting conditions.

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